Saturday, December 15, 2018

Glenwood Man Sentenced for Receipt of Child Pornography

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on December 6, 2018, 40 year-old Steven Horton was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 84 months of imprisonment, to be followed by ten years of supervised release. Horton pled guilty to accessing child pornography on July 24, 2018.

Operation Pacifier was an investigation conducted by the FBI into Playpen, a website on The Onion Router (TOR) hosted as hidden service. Playpen operated as a message-board type of website where registered users would distribute and share images and videos of child pornography. Horton registered with Playpen on October 27, 2014, and Horton was actively logged into Playpen for more than 21 hours between the October 27, 2014, and February 28, 2015.

This matter was investigated by Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

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